I have made a flash drive twice now, and on the second time I paid more attention when installing things thus have narrowed down my problems to the metapackage sdr tools.
Upon install it says something about updating libqt4 to a different version after which when i go to install ANYTHING else using apt-get I get an error almost identical to whats mentioned here (just substitute different versions and AMD64 where appropriate): http://askubuntu.com/questions/216998/broken-packages

I can't fix this libqt4 thing because to try to install or remove it just throws the same errors.
At least the second time installing sdr tools the tools actually worked...unfortunately NOTHING more can be installed after them.